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    Puerto Rico recovery and NFL protests

    What's the right approach?

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    By Josh Barro • Sep 29, 2017 • 51m Listen

    Puerto Rico is devastated. FEMA is on the ground but the response is going slowly. What should we be doing? Republicans have announced their tax reform proposal with big tax cuts for businesses and uncertain effects for families. Is this going to be any more popular than healthcare repeal? We preview the upcoming Supreme Court term, with cases about gerrymandering, the travel ban and cakes. Then, we talk about race, the president and the NFL.

    Photo: Puerto Rican residents walk in flooded streets in Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 22, 2017, following Hurricane Maria. (Puerto Rico National Guard photo by Sgt. Jose Ahiram Diaz-Ramos)

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    • NBC/WSJ poll on cutting taxes

    • Barro on the tax plan, a looming political disaster for Republicans

    • Lowry on disrespecting the national symbol

    • Vanden Heuvel on speaking truth to power

    • Bazelon on Gerrymandering, Gill v. Whitford

    • Smith on how the NFL watered down Colin Kaepernick's protest

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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      The Nation

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      Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'

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      Staff writer, New York Times; co-host, Slate Political Gabfest podcast

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